Everyone
has to make a choice first before starling a career. This is the choice……….

This is
because any immature decision can lead one’s flourishing career towards
destruction and disparity.

1. Choose the
correct answer from the alternatives.

(a) Courage and determination are essential for choosing
any___ job.

(i)
conventional

(ii)
unconventional

(iii)
Common

(iv)
typical

(b) What
moulds the future of a job seeker?

(i) starting a career

(ii) choice

(iii) looking for a job

(iv) steady
income

(c) What do you mean by odd job?

(i) conventional
jobs

(ii)
traditional jobs

(iii)
untraditional jobs

(iv)
difficult jobs

(d) Conventional job refers to____

(i) domestic jobs

(ii)
household works

(iii)
traditional jobs

(iv)easy
jobs

(e) How many points of things should a job seeker
consider to have a non-conventional job?

(i) one
point

(ii) two
points

(iii) three
points

(iv) four
points

(f) An out of norm job means____

(i) foreign
job

(ii)
abnormal job

(iii) odd
job

(iv)conventional
job

(g)Healthy pay check means____

(i) healthy
donation

(ii) good
check

(iii) good
salary

(iv)good
payment by check

1. Answer:

(a) (ii)
unconventional

(b) (ii)
choice

(c) (iii)
untraditional

(d) (iii)
traditional

(e) (iv)
four points

(f) (iii)
odd jobs

(g) (iii)
good salary

2. Answer the
following questions.

(a) Why do
people look for conventional job?

(b)How many
types of jobs are monitored in this passage? What are they?

(c) What is
the importance of choice to a jobseeker?

(d) Which
point should a jobseeker consider before taking an Unconventional job?

(e) Which
qualities of job seekers are important to choose any odd job? How are odd jobs?

2. Answer:

(a) People
look for conventional jobs because of steady income and secured growth with
social acceptance.

(b) Two
types of jobs are mentioned in this passage. They are conventional jobs or
traditional jobs and unconventional jobs or odd jobs.

(c) To a
job seeker, the important of choice is very great because it shapes the future
of the job seeker.

(d) Before
taking an unconventional jib, a job seeker should consider several points such
as the choice of companies or organisations hiring him for jobs, a healthy
paycheck, befitting educational degree for the job and maintaining his
livelihood with the money earned.

(e)
Calculative decision, courage and determination are the qualities that a job
seeker has to possess before taking any unconventional or odd jobs. Odd jobs
can be cool, funny, exciting, even strange or weird.

3. Write a summary of the passage in no more than 90 to 100 words.

3. Answer:

Choosing career is very important for a
man. Because this is the choice that moulds and shapes the future of a man
seeking a job. Usually, people look for traditional jobs for earning a steady
income having security and social and having security and social status. This
kinds of choice for job is known as conventional or traditional jobs. But there
are a lot of unconventional or odd jobs which a man does not usually chose for
a profess ion. Because people are scared of regular payment of salary and job
security. However, one has to have calculative decision and courage before
choosing a job. Because immature decision may lead one towards destruction and
disparity.

4. Read the passage on one of the greatest Olympic heroes, Usain Bolt.
Complete the table below with information from the passage:

Usian Bolt is one of the most outstanding
Olympic heroes and is considered the fastest man in the world. Bolts was born
in Jamaica August 21, 1986. He spent his early life playing cricket and
football in the street with his brother. “When I was young, I didn’t really
thing about anything other than sports”, says he. At the age of 15, Bolt took
his first shot a success on the world stage at the 2002. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic games and also
cemented his legacy in London 2012. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, he
become the first man in Olympic history to win both the 100m and 200m races in
the world records times. At the 2012 London Olympic games, he again won both
the 100m and 200m races. Hence Bolt has become the third man to repeat as 100
miter gold medalist and the first as 200-meter gold medalist, and he broke his
own Olympic record by running the 100 in 9.63 seconds. Along with his
teammates, he also set the world records in the 4×100-meter relay. So he is
considered the reigning Olympic champion in these three events and also he is
the first man to win six Olympic gold medals in sprinting in six Olympic finals
and a five-time world champion. Bolt is just 27 years old, so there is no
telling how long he can be on the top the of the sprinting world.

Who/ What

Event/ Description

Bolt

(a) ……

(b)……..

held in the year of 2008

Jamaica

(c)………

(d)……..

Has to be played with teammates

Bolt’s first international success

(e)………..

4.Answer:

(a) one of
the most outstanding Olympic heroes and the fastest man in the world.

(b) Beijing
Olympic Games

(c) birth
place of Usain Bolt

(d) 4⨯100-meter relay

(e) 2002
World Junior Championship in Kingston, Jamaica

5. From your reading of the above passage, fill in the blanks with
suitable words. Use one word only in each blank.

Usain Bolt is an amazing (a)____- who is
considered the fastest man in the world. These Olympic heroes born on in
Jamaica in the year of 1986. Since Childhood, only thing he used to think about
was (b)_____. He first international success was achieved when he was only
(c)_____ years old; it was at 2002 in the world Junior Championship in
Kingston. Since then, his success kept growing. His incredible dominating from
in the (d)_____ Olympic Games in 2008. After that, bolt proved his dominance
once again in the London Olympic Games by becoming the third man to repeat as
the winner of gold medal in 100 miter sprint and the (e)____ in the 200-meter
sprint. Bolt also made a record in a relay race with his team-mates in the
Olympics.

5. Answer:

(a)
sprinter

(b) sports

(c) 15

(d) Beijing

(e) first
gold medalist

6. Match the parts of sentence given in column A,
B and C make five complete sentences.

Column A

Column B

Column C

(a)
Florence

(i)
wanted

(i) to
server the sick and the wounded

(b)
Nightingale

(ii)gave

(ii)
herself up to the task of improving hospital

(c)
Dreadful stories

(iii)
felt

(iii)
that something must be done for the wounded brave soldiers.

(d)
everybody

(iv) was

(iv) born
more than a hundred years ago

(v) came

(v) home
of wounded soldiers being left to die.

6.Answer:

(a)
Florence Nightingale was born more than a hundred years ago.

(b)
Florence Nightingale wanted to serve the sick and the wounded.

(c) Florence
Nightingale gave herself up to the task of improving hospital.

(d)
Dreadful stories came home of wounded soldiers being left to die.

(e)
Everybody felt that something must be done for the wounded brave soldiers.

7. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to

Rewrite the whole story.

(a) One-day woman become more furious
than ever.

(b) This made his wife much furious

(c) She began to insult him.

(d)Socrates wife used to lose her temper
on the slightest excuse.

(e) She went up to him with a bucket full
or water and poured much water on him.

(f) She thought that her husband was not
paying the least heed to her.

(g) She always tried to irritate
Socrates.

(h) He sat on the doorstep of his house
looking out on the public street